LIWDG Resources
Comprehensive resources for Web developers including how-to guides, code libraries, server technologies and authoring resources:
- Web Design Discussion Lists
- Web Standards
- Cascading Style Sheets
- Design Tips and Tutorials
- Usability
- Fonts
- Stock Photography
- Web Browsers
- DNS/IP Tool
- Hoax/Urban Legend
- Virus Information
Web Design Discussion Lists
- Long Island Web Developers Guild: Yes, we have our own list and it leads you to a wonderful resource of mostly Long Island based Web designers and programmers.
- World Wide Web Artists Consortium: NYC org. w/ "spirited" discussion list...good leads on "local" job opportunities
- HTML Writers Guild: a number of different lists targeting specific topics in Web site development
- BBEdit: a discussion list run by the folks at Bare Bones themselves...so you get answers right from the developers' mouth
Web Standards
- W3C - The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) develops interoperable technologies (specifications, guidelines, software, and tools) to lead the Web to its full potential.
- The Web Standards Project
- Common Ideas Between HTML and XHTML - The Web Standards Project
- mezzoblue: A Roadmap to Standards
- CSS, Accessibility and Standards Links
- Web page development best practices - Apple
- A List Apart: Articles: In Search of the Holy Grail
- CSS, Accessibility and Standards Links
Cascading Style Sheets
- The CSS Homepage at W3C - links to tutorials, test suites, core styles, authoring tools, the free CSS validator, and of course the official specs.
- WestCiv CSS Guide - detailed, and helpful.
- css Zen Garden: The Beauty in CSS Design
- A List Apart's Web Designer's Journey
- A List Apart: Articles: Alternative Style: Working With Alternate Style Sheets
- A List Apart: Articles: Flash Satay: Embedding Flash While Supporting Standards
- A List Apart: Articles: Night of the Image Map
- css.maxdesign.com.au - CSS resources and tutorials for web designers and web developers
- Layout-o-Matic - CSS code generator
- The Layout Reservoir - BlueRobot
- Stopdesign - Using Background-Image to Replace Text
- CSS and Round Corners: Build Boxes with Curves [CSS Tutorials]
- Position Is Everything - Modern browser bugs explained in detail!
- IE Background Positioning Bug - An explanation and a fix
- Eric Meyer: CSS
Design Tips and Tutorials
- Lynda Weinman's - Online tutorials, books, video training
- Creativepro.com - the place where creative professionals go for information and tools needed to get real work done every day.
- The Design & Publishing Center: Photoshop Tips & Tricks...and now publishing Web Design & Review
- Jeffrey Zeldman: Web tools, tips, & commentary
Usability
- useit.com: Jakob Nielsen's site - usable information technology
- Functioning Form - Interface Design Blog (Weblog)
- jjg.net: a visual vocabulary- A visual vocabulary for describing information architecture and interaction design
Fonts
- Linotype - We offer you more than 6700 original, high-quality fonts from classic to cool in OpenType, TrueType and PostScript.
- MyFonts - find a font
- FontHaus ...is where you can download text, display and script fonts online.
- Code Style: Windows font survey results
- Microsoft Typography - Fonts supplied with some Microsoft products
Stock Photography
- iStockphoto.com
- Creatas
- Getty Images
- Stock Art - Stock Illustration, Spot Images, and Stock Art
- RubberBall - Royalty Free Digital Stock Photography
- PunchStock
- Dover Publications!
- Stockbyte
- Photonica
- ElvisPhotos.com - Official Elvis Presley Stock
Web Browsers
- Webreference- browser stats
- W3Schools - browser stats
- Upsdell- Web browser statistics
- Browsercam - Browser screen captures in any browser
- The Counter - Web Site analysis tool
- evolt.org - Browser Archive
DNS/IP Tools
- DSL Reports - determine connection speed
- What Is My IP?
- Reverse DNS Lookup
- DNS Stuff